What is hemp cloth? Chinese clothing
Wild hemp plant - for hemp cloth, oil, or medicine Where does hemp grow wild? Before people ever thought of using it for anything, hemp grew wild all over Central [...]
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Who made the first hot air balloon? Ancient China
Kongming's Light, made by kids at Laurelhurst School, Portland Oregon Kites came first People in China started to fly kites made of silk and bamboo by about 800 BC. Maybe flying [...]
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Slavery in ancient China
An enslaved woman dancer from the Han Dynasty Slavery in Stone Age China Some people in China were probably forced into slavery as long ago as the Stone Age. Probably slavery [...]
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Kublai Khan and the Yuan Dynasty – Mongols in China
Kublai Khan of the Yuan Dynasty Who were the Mongols? In 1276 AD, when the Mongols invaded and took over China, they had already been ruling a large empire for about [...]
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Medieval China – History
A T'ang Dynasty emperor In 220 AD, Han Dynasty China fell apart into three medium-sized kingdoms, so people call this the Three Kingdoms period. In 581 AD, a general named [...]
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Yuan Dynasty Chinese art – Mongols in China
Yuan Dynasty china bowls Mongols and Chinese art You might think that the invasion of the Mongols in 1279 AD would have killed off a lot of artists and there wouldn't [...]
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Yuan Dynasty Architecture – Mongols in China
Yonglegong Taoist temple in Shangxi (1247 AD) When the Mongols conquered China in the 1200s AD, they did not bring in their own architecture, but continued the older Song Dynasty [...]
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Toregene and Kublai Khan – Mongol Empire History
Coin of Toregene Toregene ruled the Mongol Empire for five years. By then she was not in good health - she was about 55 years old. She passed on her [...]
